Robert Levitus

Levitus, R. ‘Land rights and local economies: The Gagudju Association and the mirage of collective self-determination’, in D. Austin-Broos and G. Macdonald (eds), Culture, Economy and Governance in Aboriginal Australia, University of Sydney Press, Sydney, pp. 29–39.

In response to post-war mining developments on Northern Territory Aboriginal reserves, policy innovations established the principles that a special rate of royalties could be levied on those developments and applied to the benefit of Northern Territory Aborigines, and that a proportion of those royalties should be reserved for the people of the area where mining was taking place. The Woodward Land Rights Commission accepted these two principles and also created Aboriginal land councils as a third class of beneficiary.